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November 28, 2013

Mr.
Seyed Hossein Boroujerdi, 55-year-old prisoner of conscience is serving his
eighth year, of an eleven year sentence. He was charged with calling for the
separation of religion and state and has stood steadfast on his principles and
has sent letters to international legal bodies from within his cell. He
continues his struggle against a tyrannical regime all the while the regime has
sought to destroy him by putting various forms of pressure on him and his
family. The situation is such that Mr. Boroujerdi’s sons, Mehdi and Mohammad
have been prohibited from continuing their higher education and deprived of all
work that is in any way related to the government. They are even forbidden
employment at private companies, as intelligence agents of the regime continue
to make trouble.

November 26, 2013

A good measure of how a regime will behave toward its neighbors can be found in how it treats its own people.

As negotiations resumed this week in Geneva over Iran’s nuclear weapons programs, Iranian regime officials have taken an increasingly hard line, making it unlikely any progress will be made absent significant U.S. concessions.

Before Secretary of State John F. Kerry is tempted to give away the store in order to achieve a Pyrrhic victory, he would do well to listen to the voices of those the regime in Tehran has tried so hard to silence: its political prisoners.

November 22, 2013

According to "Human Rights Activists for Democracy in Iran" inhumane
pressures on freedom-loving and anti-regime cleric, Hossein Kazemeini-Boroujerdi,
by prohibiting him from receiving all medical treatment wasdirectly ordered by the Special Clerical
Tribunal.

In addition to Mr. Boroujerdi’s heart condition
which remains untreated, the condition of his eyes has also begun to seriously
deteriorate recently. Due to the ongoing physical torture that he has endured
throughout the seven years of his arbitrary detention, he is now suffering from
damage to his retina. He is said to have lost close to 90% of his sight. Since
his eyes have been untreated, he now also has Epiphora
as well as Parkinson's disease, heart disease, diabetes, respiratory and
pulmonary problems, kidney stones and swollen legs.

November 20, 2013

A new
round of pressures and inhumane treatment, threats and abuse against
freedom-loving Ayatollah Kazemeini-Boroujerdi

According
to Human Rights Activist for Democracy in Iran on Sunday,
November 17th, Mr. Boroujerdi was viciously attacked inside his prison cell and
then transferred to the Special Clerical Tribunal offices (a building
specifically designed for the interrogation and temporary detention of
dissident clerics) in the Zaferanieh district of Tehran. However, Mr.
Boroujerdi who has stood on his principals refused to go. He was then
beaten and verbally abused by a special agent by the name of Rousta.
Later the same afternoon, a colleague of Rousta, by the name of Youssefinia
(deputy to Ebrahim Raissi, Special Clerical Prosecutor appointed by the Supreme
Leader) returned to attack and further abuse Mr. Boroujerdi.

Human
Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) - Hossein Kazemeini-Boroujerdi, dissident
cleric and political prisoner detained in the Special Clerical ward at Evin
prison is suffering from various illnesses and has been prohibited from
receiving all medical treatment.

Based on
received reports from HRANA, the 55 year old Boroujerdi has served seven years
in prison and has never been given any furlough from prison.

November 12, 2013

I embark
upon my eighth Moharram in prison. One thousand four hundred years ago, twenty
eight generations back, Imam Hossein who is my ancestor, was also held captive
by a religious dictatorship. He had revolted against that political religion in
order to free faith from Yazid’s political pollution. So Hossein stood firm, armed
with his faith and gave his, his families and friends lives to that cause.
Today, that same tragedy has been repeated and I, the descendant of the
prophet, who stands in defense of the merciful God who has been misrepresented
by the plot of a religious regime which oppresses, violates and suffocates and
in the name of divinity promotes the crimes of the Supreme Leader. Therefore, I
now suffer the same calamity that my innocent forefathers faced.

November 11, 2013

After telling us throughout the
first six months of 2009 that Iran is not totalitarian, i.e., until his bubble
was burst when Supreme Leader Khamenei savagely quashed Iran's Green
Revolution, Roger Cohen is again seeking to spread his delusional hogwash. In
his latestNew York Timesop-ed entitled "Bibi’s Tired
Iranian Lines" (link),
Cohen, who doesn't speak Farsi, would have us know:

"It is not just that the world has now heard from Netanyahu
of the imminent danger of a nuclear-armed Iran for a very long time. It is not
just that Israel has set countless 'red lines' that proved permeable. It is not
just that the Islamic Republic has been an island of stability compared to its
neighbors Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. It is not just that, as Rouhani’s
election shows, Iran is no Nazi-like totalitarian state with a single authority
but an authoritarian regime subject to liberalizing and repressive waves."

November 04, 2013

I send greetings to friends, family and supporters and wish them
all success in serving our God Almighty and the righteous everywhere

In my eighth years of captivity in the prison of the Supreme
Leader, I have come to know about political realities. One cannot be political
and defend freedom and justice as it is powerful politicians who set the
parameters and in order to awaken the politicians, it is the political
activists around the world who should be defending human rights. However, the
issue of human rights has become nothing more than an artifice for some
activists and therefore politicians, to use, to either promote or to obstruct
to their own advantage.